[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90.1 ???

[Nico]

Arpi wrote:

>Hi,
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>>>I guess we should release some bugfix release of 0.90 soon...
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>>>Maybe it could be 0.91pre, and after few weeks of testing pre2 or
>>>0.91final
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>>I agree with this plan. Backporting new stuff to 0_90 is a lot of work, 
>>and IMHO doesn't worth the effort.
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>After quick reading that 4MB ~170.000 lines patch i tend to agree :)
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>>My opinion is release 0_90 as is and call it 0.90.1, and release CVS as 
>>0.91.x series.
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>i vote for 0.91 and 0.99pre1
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>>There were some user-visible changes (i mean changes in command syntax) 
>>from 0_90 to CVS, so it makes sense to keep 0.90.x for some time, 
>>explaining clearly to the users that it's a stable  
>>bux-fix-only-no-new-features version.
>>If someone wants all the new codecs-demuxers-filters-stuff should use 
>>the 0.91.x branch.
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>yes
>we also could 'use' this feature-set difference to force users to test the
>unstable code and send more bugreports :)
>(the only problem is that bugreports are ignored as-is, so it doesn't really
>matter if they send them or not :(((()
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>>Looks like there isn't a lot of people actively committing to MPlayer 
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>yes :(((((
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>>at the moment, so i think that mantaining three versions (0_90, CVS and 
>>soon G2) is an overkill.
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>agree
>we have no resources to maintain 0_90 any more.
>we don't even have enough resources to maintain main and g2...
>the problem is that there isn't a lot of people actively working on g2
>neither :(
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>the only g2 patches i got are only for bsd, darwin and cygwin compatibility.
>(so except some design ideas on maillist and irc, i'm alone on g2 development)
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>while i know (and said) that libvo2 API is stable now, also teh stream layer
>of g2, so ppl. could start porting/rewriting stream/vo2 modules for g2.
>and, when the major drivers are ported, we could replace g1's libvo and
>stream layer too, by the g2 one.
>(stream layer is compatible (stream.h is the same) and there is vf_vo2 for
>vf-vo2 interface so it's also easy to use libvo2 with g1)
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I could port (copying the new version) the dvbin stuff, but is there any 
implementation of  input management (changing channel) ?

>although i hope that g2 will be usable in a month, actually it's already
>usable but lacks of config layer 1-3 (1-2: not implemented yet, 3 not designed
>yet), you can even play mpeg, avi, asf and ogg files with perfect (much
>better than g1) a-v sync using g2's sample app, test-play.c.
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>A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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The TS samples present at mphq are still out of sync with g2-pre26, 
especially cnnts[124].mpg

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